Your ‘umble scribe has long been an avid user of free and open source software. For a long time, read for over 2 decades.
Indeed, GNU/Linux (often simply termed Linux. Ed.) has been my operating system of choice for over 17 years.
But what exactly do the terms free software and open source actually mean? How does software bearing these labels differ in comparison to the proprietary software used by most people and organisations? And finally, why does any of this actually matter?
To answer these questions, the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has recently produced the video embedded below. It takes under 3 minutes to watch and provides succinct answers to the questions posed above.